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Preferred term

remote sensing

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Definition

  • [GEMET] 1) The scientific detection, recognition, inventory and analysis of land and water area by the use of distant sensors or recording devices such as photography, thermal scanners, radar, etc. 2) Complex of techniques for the remote measure of electromagnetic energy emitted by objects.

Broader concept

Scope note

  • US LTER controlled vocabulary

Creator

  • herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at

In other languages

French

  • télédétection

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/USLterCV_464

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